Agile, Project Management and Software Testing in Spring 2011 Issue of Methods & Tools

Methods & Tools – the free magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Spring 2011 PDF issue with the following articles:
* Automated Acceptance Tests and Requirements Traceability
* Managing Schedule Flaws using Agile Methods
* User-Centric Design and the Power of Personas
* Complexity Theory for Software Developers
* Build Patterns to Boost your Continuous Integration
* GivWenZen – Behavior Driven Development for FitNesse
* Celoxis – Web Based Project Management
* Tellurium Automated Testing Framework
* Apache CXF
* RSpec Best Practices
* Maven Plugins
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Software Testing Dojos in Winter issue of Methods & Tools

Methods & Tools – the free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Winter 2010 issue with the following articles:
* Non-Functional Requirements: Do User Stories Really Help?
* Software Testing Dojos
* Process improvement, The Agile Way!
* Tool: Apache ServiceMix
* Tool: Apache Camel
* Tool: ArgoUML – Open Source Unified Modeling Language

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Agile, project management and software testing in Fall issue of Methods & Tools

Methods & Tools – the free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Fall 2010 issue with the following articles:
* Distributed Teams and Agile – Managing Global Agile Projects
* Decomposition of Projects: How to Design Small Incremental Steps
* Source Code Analysis in Agile Projects
* The Core Protocols, an Experience Report, Part 2 – Tools for High Performance Teams
* tinyPM – Agile project management
* Junit – open source Java unit testing
* Bromine – open source Web testing
* Agilefant – open source Agile project management
* SoapUI – open source Web testing

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Hudson – Your Escape from “Integration Hell”

This interesting presentation of the Hudson continuous integration tool has been published in the software development magazine Methods & Tools. Hudson is a popular web-based continuous integration server, written in Java. Hudson is used in 17.000+ server installations worldwide in small, medium and large companies alike, including eBay, Hewlett-Packard, MySQL, JBoss, Xerox, Yahoo, LinkedIn, or Goldman-Sachs. It allows you to automate your software build chain, e.g. monitoring changes in version control systems, triggering new builds, testing artifacts, sending notifications, deploying to production servers, and much more. Hudson is liked for its ease of use and broad extensibility via 250+ plugins.

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